UN General Assembly Resolutions:
Resolution 57/128

(December 11, 2002)

Having considered the reports of the Special Committee to Investigate
Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People
and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories,1

Deeply concerned that the Syrian Golan, occupied since 1967,
has been under continued Israeli military occupation,

Recalling Security Council resolution 497 (1981) of 17 December
1981,

Recalling also its previous relevant resolutions, the last of
which was resolution 56/63 of 10 December 2001,

Having considered the report of the Secretary-General submitted
in pursuance of resolution 56/63,2

Recalling its previous relevant resolutions in which, inter
alia, it called upon Israel to put an end to its occupation of the Arab
territories,

Reaffirming once more the illegality of the decision of 14 December
1981 taken by Israel to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration
on the occupied Syrian Golan, which has resulted in the effective annexation
of that territory,

Reaffirming that the acquisition of territory by force is inadmissible
under international law, including the Charter of the United Nations,

Reaffirming also the applicability of the Geneva Convention
relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12
August 1949,3 to the occupied Syrian Golan,

Bearing in mind Security Council resolution 237 (1967) of 14
June 1967,

Welcoming the convening in Madrid of the Peace Conference on
the Middle East on the basis of Security Council resolutions 242 (1967)
of 22 November 1967 and 338 (1973) of 22 October 1973 aimed at the realization
of a just, comprehensive and lasting peace, and expressing grave concern
about the stalling of the peace process on all tracks,

1. Calls upon Israel, the occupying Power, to comply with the
relevant resolutions on the occupied Syrian Golan, in particular Security
Council resolution 497 (1981), in which the Council, inter alia, decided
that the Israeli decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration
on the occupied Syrian Golan was null and void and without international
legal effect, and demanded that Israel, the occupying Power, rescind
forthwith its decision;

2. Also calls upon Israel to desist from changing the physical
character, demographic composition, institutional structure and legal
status of the occupied Syrian Golan and in particular to desist from
the establishment of settlements;

3. Determines that all legislative and administrative measures
and actions taken or to be taken by Israel, the occupying Power, that
purport to alter the character and legal status of the occupied Syrian
Golan are null and void, constitute a flagrant violation of international
law and of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian
Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949,3 and have no legal
effect;

4. Calls upon Israel to desist from imposing Israeli citizenship
and Israeli identity cards on the Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian
Golan and from taking repressive measures against the population of
the occupied Syrian Golan;

5. Deplores the violations by Israel of the Geneva Convention
relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12
August 1949;

6. Calls once again upon Member States not to recognize any
of the legislative or administrative measures and actions referred to
above;

7. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly
at its fifty-eighth session on the implementation of the present resolution.